In with the new:
And while they're at it, they need to change the name of their website: www.beaners.com
Posted on 09/24/2007 8:43:05 AM PDT by stratboy
eaner's Coffee, the third-largest retail coffee chain in the Midwest, announced they will change the name of all 79 of their current stores to Biggby Coffee. The company said the reason for the change is because the current name is a disparaging term for Hispanics.
Until I ran across the story about the name change, I thought the moniker was in reference to the coffee beans through which the hot water is filtered. I feel so naïve now.
The announcement of the name change got me to looking around and evaluating who should be next. It's a surefire bet that the politically correct tone of our culture will increase in the coming years, so accusations of racism, sexism, weightism, heightism and ism-ism in the names of our businesses will increase as well. Even the most seemingly innocuous business name may someday be suspect.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Here is one source of info on the term "beaner"... Urban Dictionary definition of "beaner"
taco bender... hadn’t heard that one in a while.
a couple of months back i’m grocery shopping with my family. my wife is reading off the list of things we still need to get. she reads out loud “beans.. ok... we need beans”. my 4 year old shouts “YEAH, CUZ DADDY’S A BEANER!!!”
Why? Are the neighborhoods getting taken over? `Frad they might loose a buck? The word Beaner has been around for at least 20 - 30 years that I know of, probably longer. BEANER’S COFFEE was founded in East Lansing, MI in 1995 by Bob Fish and Mary Roszel. So now that they are successful and their website is, of course, “beaners.com” they are all of a sudden massively "culturally sensitive?"
from their website... felt the need to distance ourselves from a term that is considered a disparaging expression. That’s it, nothing more. A big part of our success up to now has been about doing the right thing when the opportunity presents itself. This is one of those opportunities, and we’re happy to make the change.
What a pandering load. They would not do a complete name change unless not doing it meant loosing money. Which is ok but to get all gushy and self-righteous is a load of krap.
Totally asinine! What’s next to go? Woppers? Spic ‘n’ Span? Jig Saws? It’s really a slippery SLOPE!
“Beaner’s Coffee, the third-largest retail coffee chain in the Midwest,
announced they will change the name of all 79 of their current stores
to Biggby Coffee. “
Thanks for the post.
Now I have another addition to my “Don’t Patronize These PC Morons’ Business”
list.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Quick, sombody email them a copy of Beaner's press release and see if they will change their name too!
I guess “WetBlack” is not going to fly either?
If Hooters is for big breasted women, then IHOP is for one legged waitresses.
......Bob
His understanding of “coconut” and mine differ. I had always understood it to be interchangeable with ‘oreo’.
Well, you know what I mean. :-)
The musical “Grease” has to go...
Sigh. Gone are the days when we could stop off at Pepperbelly’s cafe for a snack then go to Sambo’s for some Beaner coffee. finally ending the day watching Allan Arkin in Freebe and the Bean and then Bill Dana as Hose Hemaniez complete with advertisments for the Frito Bandito.
I guess I don’t know any real Mexican haters, because this is a new one on me.
But it appears to be so. Warning: there’s a lot of vile racism in the synonymns and definitions.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beaner
Does that mean I can never wash... 
my back anymore?
Coffee beans! There are different kinds. A coffee officianado is a beaner. For C-—st’s sake, what kind of a nit wit runs that place? I’m sure glad our culture is safer now!
The lights are on in America, is anyone home? Is there even a single brain cell left between us?
We’re folding like a house of cards. If it isn’t the Muslims, it’s the Mexicans. If it isn’t them, it’s some other group. My town as declared the Armenian Holocaust to be a city holiday. Say what?
Honest to God, everyone wants us to be something we’re not. We’re not a nation that has it’s own culture. We’re supposed to change to whatever the latest flavor of the month is. And it’s getting to be a bit much folks.
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